Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-05-13
lHE ROMINcN or INTENTION

strides in civilization during the past three
quarters Of a century. The records of glo-
rious though often painful achievements
CLEAN here and there with episodes rs ru-
mantle and wonderful os any that grace
the annals Of chvalry, while sOrruwiul and
sumbre tales of disappointment suffering
and disaster supply the tragic elements in
the thrilling narrative.
Not the least interesting feature Of the
veritable romance of invention is the fact
that some of the greatest and most moment
Gus inventions have been made by the
merest chance. Thus the application of
lenses to the uses Of the telescope was acct
dentally learned 10y a watchmaker's jour
neyman He was triAing with a pair Of
spectacle glasses, and holding them be-
/ tween his thumb and forelnger, was
startled at the greatly enlarged appear
ance Of distant church steeple. An alche-
mist--the medieval name for what we
/ should call II scientific investigator-w lille
seeking 30 discover a mixture of earths that
| would make the hardest crucibles, one day
| found that he had made porcelain The art
| Of mezzotnt owed its discovery 10 such II
simple event as a gun barrel Of a sentry be
coming rustcd with dew, while the rhyth-
mic swaying 10 and fro Of great central
| chandelier in the gusty aisles Of cathe-
! dral suggested TO Calico the motion Of the
| pendulum.
! The power loom, we are told, is the in
vention Of farmers boy who had little ac-
quaintance with machinery. He whitfield
out one with his jack knife, and after it
was completed and put together he showed
it. with no little pride, to his father. The
honest man at once kicked it to pieces, say
ing he would not have son around the
house who would waste his time ON such
trhes The boy was sent to a blacksmith
10 learn trade, and his new master soon
took lively interest in him. He made
another loom Of what was left of the one
his father had broken up, and showed it 10
his master The blacksmith at once per
ceived he had no ordinary boy for an ap-
prentice, and that the invention was val
liable one. He had a loom constructed un-
der the supervision of the boy. 1t worked
to their perfect satisfaction, and the black
smith furnished the means to manufacture
the looms while the boy-then a young
man-received half the profits. One day
the black smith wrote the father that he
should bring 10 visit him a wealthy gentle
man who was the inventor of the famous
power loom Judge Of the astonshment
at the old homestead when the son and the
father met. and the latter was informed
that the loom wa, the same Us the model
that he had kicked to pieces The records
of the Patent office in this and other coun-
tries show that many useful inventions have
been made by boys
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though III th'S cast r vne i''u puliueu oette
thah he knew Inc engine const ruoVe'
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OF the English coal MINES ana BOY haihe
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levers. Although TINS was not hard' YET
a required constant attention As he wa
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parts oil the engine moved III SliiliiaI Ill
o recuon at the same time that the waive
had 10 he opened ana closed ne procure
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proper part Oh lhe engine anu the otheI en-
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laclloh Oh seeing Ihe waves oPeheu an
Il closed WIN perfect regularity Oh hloIloh'
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r around, ana was astonlshed 10 see the DO
> playing marbles outside the door, "hiie III
r. regular clahk elahK oil the machlher
p seemed 10 say that he was not heglecun
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saw at once the hapPy device OF the DO
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u put INTO practical ana enduring lorhl' an
thenceforth the steam engine became an az
tomato working monster
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the origin oil olue-tihted paper once e,
2 much IN vogue Tor commercial uses IN
r wife of an English paper manufacture
It named William East, gong INTO the tactt
s ry ON the domestic wash-day with an Ole
d fashioned biuing-bag III her mana, accident
Y ally let the bag ana its contents iali ihto
n vat tull OF pulp she Thought nothing +,